>No matter how you slice it, automatically associating anti immigration sentiment with xenophobia is dishonest conflation. That is correct, unless the group in

>No matter how you slice it, automatically associating anti immigration sentiment with xenophobia is dishonest conflation. That is correct, unless the group in question is saying "we don't want immigrants because they are intrinsically worse then us". In Japan's case, lookat the example of ethnic Koreans changing their names to hide the fact, despite south korea being an industralized economy on par with Japan in terms of technology and prosperity. It is difficult to see a reason why they would discriminate against Koreans for any reason based on actual performance of their people and seems to show that it is in fact xenophobia